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Mike Diamond

@mikediamond.bsky.social

✍️ Writing YA Sci-Fi “Brilliance of Earth—Tangle and Tether” (sapphic and STEM) 📘 Nonfiction book on ethical phishing “Swim Like a Phish” (under consideration). 🤲 Excited to help build community! Especially in the arts 💖✨

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If you see this, post a robot

14.10.2025 06:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Photo credit: Fabian Bimmer

08.10.2025 15:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Local clown unit infiltrates ICE in Portland, Oregon during the attempt to bring federal trips to occupy the peaceful city as a step toward dismantling the last bastion of voting and democracy in the United States, it’s blue cities that have federal bank buildings.

Local clown unit infiltrates ICE in Portland, Oregon during the attempt to bring federal trips to occupy the peaceful city as a step toward dismantling the last bastion of voting and democracy in the United States, it’s blue cities that have federal bank buildings.

Local clown unit infiltrates ICE in Portland, Oregon during the attempt to bring federal trips to occupy the peaceful city as a step toward dismantling the last bastion of voting and democracy in the United States, it’s blue cities that have federal bank buildings.

08.10.2025 14:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So tricky revisiting anything after its cultural moment.

05.10.2025 19:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My adult children play video games. I watch their streams and listen to their struggles. It’s enough gaming for me 😂

05.10.2025 18:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you write poorly, you suffer the slow improvement of practice AND the struggle to shape what you feel.

If you write well, you suffer that same practice, that same struggle, AND reliving your artful embodiment of emotions.

#writingcommunity

05.10.2025 18:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Let’s not try to be
Right or wrong
Let’s not try to be
Weak or strong
Let’s just try to move along
Together

Let’s not try to be
Last or first
Let’s not try to be
Best or worst
Let’s stop moving in reverse
Together

#poetry

04.10.2025 14:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yus!

02.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As long as it’s not taken during brunch, or at 11 exactly

01.10.2025 11:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But existential dread community is so 14 hours in the future 🤓

01.10.2025 11:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Writing as a pilgrimage…

…may not necessitate deep suffering—but discomfort?
Ch-yeah.
It’s a journey to, in part, develop patience. A cerebral lurch to the church. Ego’s skin baking in the sun, flayed in the wind. Nourishing the soul in lieu of the flesh (coffee over food 😅).
#writingcommunity

30.09.2025 21:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?
#existentialdreadcommunity

30.09.2025 10:38 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A paper flyer pinned to a corkboard in a coffee shop. From a distance, it looks like a lost cat flyer was little phone number tabs at the bottom that people can tear off, which some people already have done. By upon reading the flyer, it’s something much deeper. Here’s the text:
LOST!
Are you lost? Depressed? Hopeless about the climate crisis, rising fascism, and the possibility of a lost future? This is your sign to join Sunrise Movement.
Sunrise is building a movement of young people across race and class to stop the climate crisis and win a Green New Deal. We will force the government to end the reign of fossil fuel elites, invest in Black, brown and working class communities, and create millions of good union jobs. We're on a mission to put everyday people back in charge and build a world that works for all of us, now and for generations to come.
This cat's name is Remi. She's fine. But are you?
SUNRISE MOVEMENT
smymt.org/pdxlink
I need hope
Billionaires can eat my ***
Anything for comrade Remi
I'm about to be so optimism pilled
This movement will change me forever

A paper flyer pinned to a corkboard in a coffee shop. From a distance, it looks like a lost cat flyer was little phone number tabs at the bottom that people can tear off, which some people already have done. By upon reading the flyer, it’s something much deeper. Here’s the text: LOST! Are you lost? Depressed? Hopeless about the climate crisis, rising fascism, and the possibility of a lost future? This is your sign to join Sunrise Movement. Sunrise is building a movement of young people across race and class to stop the climate crisis and win a Green New Deal. We will force the government to end the reign of fossil fuel elites, invest in Black, brown and working class communities, and create millions of good union jobs. We're on a mission to put everyday people back in charge and build a world that works for all of us, now and for generations to come. This cat's name is Remi. She's fine. But are you? SUNRISE MOVEMENT smymt.org/pdxlink I need hope Billionaires can eat my *** Anything for comrade Remi I'm about to be so optimism pilled This movement will change me forever

Challenge accepted

30.09.2025 10:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Had to look that one up, but now I think it will infuse many of my future late night ceiling stares

27.09.2025 15:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

May the Novacaine flow freely
And the nerve endings be steely 💖✨

26.09.2025 20:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ha!

26.09.2025 20:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This interaction bears a striking resemblance to my German restaurant debacle. “No meat, just a bit of ham.” 😆😅🤔

26.09.2025 20:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’m about 15% in, but would prefer to dive into your latest rev.

26.09.2025 20:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

And huge shout out to Mileva Marić, whose contributions to this have been overlooked by the patriarchy.

26.09.2025 18:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dang. But think of how knowledgeable we’re getting 😅

26.09.2025 18:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The only surrender should be the president to his ailments ✊

26.09.2025 18:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Amen. I’m going to brunch, but will resist enjoying it 3️⃣✊

26.09.2025 18:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

On that note, I owe you some feedback on your awesome writing :-)

26.09.2025 18:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Screen capture of a drop-down menu in Microsoft Excel. AutoSum Menu options are:
Sum
Average
Count Numbers
Max
Min
Add
Minus
Multiply
Divide
More Functions...

Screen capture of a drop-down menu in Microsoft Excel. AutoSum Menu options are: Sum Average Count Numbers Max Min Add Minus Multiply Divide More Functions...

Neurodivergent observation of Excel:
Cool drop-down to measure your level of AutoSum!
ADD is an option, but not my best descriptor. Have Sum, not at Max. Like to Count Numbers. Sum days, More Functions than others.
#Neurodivergent #Excelatjokes

26.09.2025 15:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank god acetaminophen’s hard to pronounce

From stolen station
Perjurious jaws
Assure causation
Proclaimed for the cause
From their alliance
A viral catechesis
Outshouting science
With preconceived thesis
“It’s for the children”
Say those who infect
Calling the villain
We who object

#poetry

23.09.2025 17:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looks great!

23.09.2025 00:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Best way to win any religious argument:
“You presume to know God‘s wisdom, which is the sin of presumption.”
Then just sit back and watch their robot head explode.

21.09.2025 21:40 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Showers, driving, doing dishes. Those are my three activities for mental thunderbolts.
And congratulations!

20.09.2025 18:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Today, the craft of writing struck me as solitary.
Yes, there is community, sharing struggles and war stories, small but magnificent triumphs.
Yes, there are editors who guide, readers who react, many other connections.
But only we know what works. And what works is us. Alone.

#writingcommunity

20.09.2025 17:49 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Woohoo!! Congratulations!

12.09.2025 14:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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